I LOST MY SUGAR IN SALT LAKE CITY
(Leon René / Johnny Lange)
Johnny Mercer & Freddie Slack - 1942
Mae Johnson (feat. in the film "Stormy Weather") - 1943
Stan Kenton & His Orch. (vocal: Anita O'Day) - 1943
Judy Garland & Johnny Mercer (Radio Transcription) - 1943
Perry Como - 1943
Julie London - 1956
Peggy Lee & George Shearing - 1959
Also recorded by:
Billy Eckstine; Louis Armstrong; Sonny Dunham; Louis Jordan.
I lost my sugar in Salt Lake City
Oh, why did I go there
I should have stayed down in New Orleans
And never gone nowhere
A girl with sweet talk from Kansas City
Her words were sweet like wine
She bought him diamonds and limousines
She stole that man o' mine
When night comes a-creepin'
For me there's no sleeping
What she sews, she'll be reapin'
'Cause she done me wrong
I cried my heart out in Salt Lake City
The day I heard the news
He left me deep in my solitude
With a Salt Lake City blues
With a Salt Lake City blues
(Transcribed from the Peggy Lee/George Shearing
recording by Mel Priddle - January 2007)